âââ LUCKY NKUYANE 15:50 Thu, 11 Mar 2021
The body of the other 14-year-old teenage scholar, believed to have drowned at the Liebenbergsvlei River near Bethlehem in the Free State, has been found on Thursday.
This is the second body to be retrieved by the police divers after the body of the 14-year-old Moratehi Radebe was retrieved on Wednesday. Police spokesperson, Motantsi Makhele, says the retrieval of the 14-year-old Siphiwe Mlangeni on Thursday brought closure and ended the lengthy search which took almost a week.
He says Mlangeni was identified by his father before he was taken to the government mortuary where a post-mortem will also be conducted to determine the cause of death. It s alleged that Mlangeni and Radebe were with another schoolboy of their age and were walking together to the river next to the railway line, not far from their homes, to pick herbs.